The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 28, 1911, Image 3

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MMWIWWWWWy^??w^pywi?p|H^?mi jpjinii.iwm-aaropyiy Vnign na MOB HAKES WAR h Streets sf fiesta aad Several PceV eaas Were WW er Bert AN ALARMING SITUATION Lv Revolutionary Cheers Are Heard on All Sides.?The Outbreak Follows Months of Discontent Over the HI^h Cost of Living. Which Bears Heavy on the Poorer Classes. A critical situation has aiisen in Vienna, Austria, owing primarily to j tbe high price of the necessaries of i life. i w Riots broke out Monday, and several persons were killed, or wounded. Troops fired on the mob which had f erected barricades in the streets. There was a fierce exchange of bullets, and the soldiers were pelted with all sorts of missiles. Following a huge Socialist demonstration Monday afternoon outside the Rathhaus, held to protest against the high ^ price of food, it became necessary to call out troops to disperse the rioters. 0 In the early clashes fifty of the rioters were wounded and 100 were - arrested. Fifty thousand persons were present at the demonstration, and fiery speeches were made, de; * manding that the government' permit the importation of foreign meat * ' 1 ? 1 ?? /v r. 4 /A ?*1\A/1 \r ana ItlKC OIIICI' IllUitfiUlUa L u iciuuuj the conditions which have resulted from the prohibitory increase in the price of food products. After the close of the meeting a large procession marched to the parliament buildings, cheering for revolution and Portugal. Revolvers were fired In the air, and then the mob began stone throwing. The windows of many public and private buildings, restaurants and tram cars and street lamps were smashed. Finally a squadron of dragoons and a detatchment of infantry appeared on the scene. They charged the rioters and dispersed them. The mobs reassembled, however, g in the suburbs, which are occupied by the working class, where they y wrecked much property. The troops were retained throughout the day guarding the imperial palace and government buildings and holding opproaches to the inner city. Toward evening the rioting in the Ottakring quarter became more furious. The mob demolished all the street lamps in the main thoroughr fare, plunging the streets into darkness. They erected barricades and hurled missiles of various kinds on the soldiers from the upper windows of houses. The order was at length given to the troops to fire. At the first volley many rioters fell, either ^killed or wounded Several of the soldiers and policemen were injured, and 100 more of 0 those engaged in the conflict were placed under arrest. The agitation is the culmination of months of bitter discontent over the steady increase of the cost of living, and unless parliament takes action it is feared that the developments of the I disturbances will be very serious. The rioting was of a most deter^ mined and savage character. Although an opposite account states that only one person was killed by a bayonet thrust and several wounded slightly, it is believed the casualties are much higher. The appearance of the troops in^ tensifled the wrath of the rioters, who shouted: "We want no military! We want bread!" Stone throwing became incessant and clashes between the police and the mob, with cavalry charges, continued throughout the afternoon. Besides smashing windows in all directions, the mob completely demolished a cafe. At the height of the disorder the Socialists leader, David, tried to calm the crowd, but an infuriated mob set upon him and k beat him into unconsciousness. He was removed to a hospital. All available cavalry were brought cut to line the streets and protect the public buildings. j l I*10 r,0t!r?g In the Ottakrlng quartor was still more serious. Tramcars were overturned and shops wrecked. The mob forced its way into a school house and dragged forth all the furniture into the street and burned it. The troops were obliged twice to fire into the crowd and many I rioters fell bleeding to the ground. It was near midnight before a semblance of order was restored. There are fears of a renewal of the riot. ? ? ? Gln<l to See Tliem. The French aviator, Rregi, arrived at Fez on Tuesday, having made a successful uight from Casablanca, carrying a passenger in his aeroplane. The airmen and their machine were * in excellent condition. The Arabs ^ exhibited wild enthusiasm when the men alighted. M. Bregi was received by the sultan. ? Sets Sister on Fire. A four year old son of E. G. Friday, a prosperous farmer of Iredell, N. C., deliberately ignited a small torch and applied it to the clothing of the baby sister, the latter dying shortly after. When asked his reason for committing the act the child replied: "Juet because." ROBBING THE FARMER THEY ARE TAXED I OR THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUSTS. One of Those Infant Industries That i Some People Favor Taxing the Farmer For. Mr. Taft appears to rely for tariff , revision upon his tariff board. This is a commission selected for the purpose of furnishing congress with accurate informatian upon which it may base future action. Mr. Taft, however, does not make clear wnai basis he has for believing that congress will make use of this information. On previous occasions a republican congress has had uncontradicted facts before it relating to pending schedules, and utterly ignored them in fixing the duties. Take the cotton bagging item, for example. Before the ways and means committee at the 1909 hearing the fact was adduced that the manufacture of this necessity of the cotton planter is controlled entirely by three companies that have an egreement among themselves whereby all competition is eliminated between them and prices are fixed. This information was before congress, uncontradicted, but it was ignored. The rate of duty on this bagging, which is used for covering baled cotton, is six-tenths of a cent a tinnnrft vnrd. which is 15 ner cent. ad valorem. This rate is the same as was contained in the Dingley law. Each year the cotton planters of the country use an average of 150,000,000 square yards, of which amount all but 1 0,000,000 square yards is made by the three big concerns in America. The total duty collected on this material in 1910 was $99,000 an insignificant sum when compared with the fact that it is the very instrument by which the bagging takes from the cotton planters over a half million dollars a year. To state it in other words by reason of a tariff on cotton bagging the planters are compelled to pay $616,000 more per year than would otherwise be the case, of which sum the government takes- approximately $100,000 and permits the bagging trust to collect $516,000. A little history of this schedule also gives the interesting information that when it first made its appearance in the list of import duties it was higher than the facts adduced by the ways and means committee of that session, the Forty-eight congress, justified. The first request Kir o man namorl Mflr. WttB inciciicu UJ <?. mm. tiuuivu shall who stated a duty of 15 per cent ad valorem would be sufficient and would furnish all the protection needed for it as an infant industry. Yet the McKinley bill shows a tariff of 1.6 cents per square yard, which was then an ad valorem duty of 3 2 per cent. That industry, under the rates that have prevailed, has developed into an arrogant and burdensome trust. It will be recalled that the original plea for protective duties was that by shutting out the foreign manufacturer the home manufacturers could develop to the point where competition between them would make it of no moment what the duty was, since that competition would fix the price at as low a point as could be possible A beautiful little bunco game that was. Behind the tariff wall it was proposed to erect?and which was erected?home industries were to grow and expand, furnishing American labor a living wage and a steady job and the American farmer a home market wherein he could sell high and buy low. The industries did develop, but within a short time after they reached the point where competition between them had a tendency to lower prices, they were combined into trusts ,a system under which they could boost prices to the full extent of the tariff barrier reared against the foreigner. The cotton bagging industry is one of these, yet the tariff remains the same. The cotton planter is also at the mercy of the steel trust by reason Of a tplally unnecesssary tariff on cot J^e# the metal bands around r I U I L UVlJ, V? V TT-. -r ... bales. Those are made principally by the Carnegie and the Pittsburg steel companies, which fix the price. The 3-10 of a cent duty, figured on the amount used last year, was $324,000, which represents are excess price paid over what would have been paid if they had been free, as under the Wilson bill. Of this artificial advance in cost, the government got $1,498 in the shape of revenue upon imports, while the remainder was pocked by the steel trust. Of what avail will these facts be with the republican senators elected by a campaign fund to which the steel trust was a heavy contributor? ? ? ? Terrorized Prisoners. A bolt of lightning struck the Somerset county, Pa., jail this week, stunning 3 2 prisoners. Terror reigned among the prisoners when they regained their senses. Some of them beat their heads aginst the doors until they were nearly unconscious. Wants the Place. Judge George E. Prince Monday announced that he would be a candidate for Associate Justice before the General Assembly in January. DIES FROM SHOT litum'* Billet Prtm Fatal la Staljrpw, Rassiaa Prcaucr THE CZAR SAW HIM SHOT The Assassination Took l'lace at a Theatre Thursday Evening of East Week,?Diniitri Ilogroff, a Young Man, Fired the Fatal Shot in the Presence of Thousands. The Russian premier, Peter A. Stolypin, died Monday night from bullet wounds received at the hands of Dimitri Bogroff, an assassin, during a gala performance at the municipal theatre Thursday evening of last week at Kiev, Russia. Almost until the last the premier was conscious and for half an hour during the early part of the evening his wife alone was at his bedside. Frequently he called" Give me the Tako If nwnv. Oiv? me a IV V VV A I JI V M ?. -M.. . ? ^ ced pencil. Lift me. Light up." Premature reports of the premier's death were current for hours before it occurred. Several missions and embassies were misled by the reports and notified their governments. The authorities at first decided to conceal the news of the preimer's death until morning fearing anti-Jewish outbreaks. This was found to be impossible and after the announcement was made all the attention of the authorties was centred in the protection of the Jews. Residents of the Jewish community were panic stricken and begged for protection and 30,000 troops were poured into Kiey to prevent excesses. \f. Kokovosoff, minister of finance, who was appointed acting premier after M. Stolypin was shot, has sent a premtory circular to the various governors on the maintenance of order. Gov. Gen. Trepoff has issued a pub lie notice that disorders will not be tolerated and stringent regulations are published forbidding the carrying of arms. It is officially announced that the manoeuvers are ended and that the troops are returning to Kiev. Outgoing trains are crowded and double trains and extra trains are leaving Kiev every hour. Hundreds of well-to-do Jews are departing from Kiev. Peter A. Stolypin was a tall, handsome man of 55 years. His short cropped hair was gray, but his beard was dark. He has been described generally as an administrator of ability. He was neither a bureaucrat or a reactionary in the ordinary sense of those terms and has been said to have been imbued with Liberalism, but determined to put down the revolutionary movements at any cost. As governor of Saratov he took such steps against the terrorist and Liberals alike as won him the detestation of the advanced parties, and Ufa nrna (itfoni ntod ill 100.V ftp 111D 111V; VTUO U LVVytll I' VVV? A A. a. v V w. was appointed premier by imperial ukase on July 22, 1900, and stamped out the revolution that had been growing to threatening propotions during the premeirship of M. Whitte and which Witte's successor, M. Goremykin, had not been able to control. Stolypin's life was attempted In August of that year when a bomb that killed 60 persons was exploded at his home. The minister escaped with slight injuries, but two of his children were wounded. As minis-1 " ' ? *' ni.i + ter or interior m. oLuiypm liuuc imu office with the duma and when he made his first speech before that body he was greeted with cries of "murderer." The opposition's hatred of M. Stolypin reached a crisis last March, when, the upper chamber of the duma having rejected his bill for the establishment Zenistvo or local government in the western provinces the premier resigned, and only consented lo resume office when the emperor agreed to disolve the duma and promulgate the measure under the authority of the fundamental laws. ? + FILLED WITH POISOX. ^ Stole Sandwiches That Had Arsenic In Them for Hats. Destitute and hungry, William Murphy entered a grocery store on Tuesday night at San Francisco, Cal., hoping to purloin something to eat. The proprietor was called to wait on a customer and Murphy seized the opportunity to gobble two sandwiches he found on the counter. He was seized with convulsions a few minutes later and was taken to the emjergjency hospital, where it was found he was suffering from arsenic poisoning. The sandwiches he had eaten had been prepared to bait a rat trap. Murphy probably will recover. Will Succeed Watson. The State says it is rumored that James Norton, former comptroller general and for several years member of the general assembly, would be appointed commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries to succeed E. J. Watson at the expiration of Mr. Watson's term in March. The appointment is in the hands of the governor. % HOW IT LOOKS TO HIM | AN ENGLISH WRITER THINKS PEOPLE WANT CHANGE. ' And That Woodrow Wilson is the Man to Lead Them to Victory in ' Its Coming Campaign. The Fortnightly Review, the leading review of London has an article * in the August number just received here under the caption "Some talks with Roosevelt." by Sidney Brooks, who spent some time in the United States and visited all sections of the country in an effort to guage the political situation as it stands today and as to the trend of the immediate future. In the course of the article, 'Mr. Brooks writes: The Democrats, so far as I can judge, are right if feeling that the tide is at last with them, and that only some abnormal development can forestall a Democratic victory in 1912. The question, therefore, of the candidate they put forward has an importance that it has lacked for the past twelve years; and that nat? urally, when the choice of a standard bearer is regarded as an almost tantamount to his election, there is an extra keenness to secure the nomination. Mr. Bryan feels that he ought to have it, but he knows that he cannot get it. At the same time his power for obstruction at any rate, remains considerable and any man whom he i ?i-.iov lm v? n linrd flcllt opemy uppuoco m.u.w o win the convention. Such a man is governor Harmon, of Ohio, an engaging popular and successful governor, but an ex-member of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet and the very type ot that straight laced more conservative school that. Mr. Cleveland represented and that Mr. Bryan has always warred on implacably. To compass the defeat of Governor Harmon's candidacy may, I think, be said for the moment to be the chief aim of Mr. Bryan's political existence. To do it he will have to espouse the nomination of some other leader; and there are at present only two other men tn the democratic ranks whom the average American v.pacarH nc nrpsiflpn can ut; uiuugm IU IVQU. u ?~ tial possibilities. One of these is Mr. Champ Clarke, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who is leading the party in congress with unmistakable masterfulness and effect, but whose reputation so far is other congressional than national. The other is Mr, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton University, who was elected last November of the governorship of New Jerin thn twist six months OUJ , aiiU ?* *?vy, ? V..W ft has worked hardly less than a revolution in the polities of his state. My view is that Mr. Wilson decidedly is ahead of all of his competitors and that his union of practicality, eloquence, fearlessly, and a high dispassionate and thoughtful sincerity have not only profoundly impressed the country, but mark him as a man who is destined to lead his party out of the wilderness. All present appearances point to his adoption next year as the democratic candidate. Further along Mr. flrooks says that "On pretty nearly every important issue Mr. Roosevelt, I should judge, is in closer sympathy with Mr. Wilson than with Mr. Taft." However he thinks party layolty will keep Mr. Roosevelt in the Republican ranks, hut adds: Mr. Roosevelt's friends, however, being less committed by past responsibilities, are freer to do as they think best; and in the event of Mr. l- - ' - l.imnnrlW f ArUf Q l'/l flC YY 11 sun uimiik ui uugiit iui M wi *? democratic nominee. I am convinced that many thousands of Republicans and among them, those who were and are, and will remain Mr. Roosevelt's most ardent followers, would vote for him in preference to Mr. Taft, even though the president himself were to sacrifice his personal predilections to his sense of party loyalty." SLIPPED ON HANANNA PEEL. * .Atlanta Alan is Minus Two Fingers on One of His Hands. A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., to the Greenville Piedmont says because he slipped on a bananna peel which was lying on the front car step, Fred G. Pond is minus two fingers on his right hand. He was in the act of aligiiting from the car when his foot slipped and he was thrown violently to the pavement. He made an Ineffectual attempt to catch, but his reach fell short and the wheels of the car passed over his hand, crushing two fingers. At the hospital to which iMr. Bond was sent, it was found necessary to amputate the fingers. ? ? ? Killed by a Train. Joe Simons, a workman on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, was killed by a train Thursday morning. It was stated that Simons was on the trestle when the train came and it knocked him off and killed him instantly. The accident occurred at tho trestle over Lynch's river. ? ? Heavy Electric Storm. One man killed, and over fifty injured and property damage reaching nearly $1,000,000 is the result of a third violent wind and electric storm in Chicago Tuesday morning. Yachts and small boats were wrecked. MAY ENTER RACE ~ Emrmr Blast Will Raa for Settle if Settler Mlata Dtrs Ntt rflE GOVERNOR'S RACE Governor Illcas? Declares He Will Run for Uunited States Senate If y Senator Tillman Is Out of the j Race, Otherwise He Will Run for ll Re-election. t In view of the authorized statement of former Congressman W. J. 0 Talbert to the effect that he would be a candidate for the United States ? Senate next summer against all comers, which is generally understood to mean that he will be a candidate whether or not Senator Tillman runs, there are a great many surmises as to the next Senatorial race. Governor Ulease has on several ocI casions announced that he would be a candidate to succeed himself as * Governor, allowing the senior Senator to succeed himself without opposition. The announcement of Mr. 1 Talbert's candidacy, in arty event, naturally brought up the question as to Governor Hlease's attitude in case ( Senator Tillman for any reason should not be a candidate to succeed himself. The News and Courier correspondent was given the following state- ( ment from Governor Please, in reply to the direct inquiry as to whether nr 11 of he would be a candidate for the United States Senate in case Senator Tillman should not run: "You may say that if Senator Tillman is not in the race I shall be a candidate for the United States Senate next summer, standing upon my record as Governor, and my record j from the time I reached my majority j until my election as Governor. If ( Senator Tillman desires to succeed ( himself I shall be a candidate for reelection as Governor." Governor Blease has just return- 1 ed from Cleveland, Ohio, where he | has been attending the Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men, 1 and where his speech, according to the Associated Press dispatches, won for Charleston the next meeting of the Great Council. The Governor, 1 when asked ?or an expression as to the candidacy of Chief Justice Jones for Governor, said: "If the race for Governor is be- , tween the present Chief Justice and , myself, I have only to say that the 1 people's Governor is the servant of | the people, and it is for the people to , decide whom they will have. My record will be before them. There , is in it nothing to hide, nor anything , that I would desire hidden. The race is open to all who may desire , to enter, and the people are the j judges. I am willing to rest my can- ( didacy with the people, who last ^ summer elected me to the position. That it all that I have to say in re- j gard to the matter." . GIKIj SHOT IN FOOT. ^ r Pistol Accidentally Shoots When it I I Dropped to the Floor. Miss 'Maggie Latham the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Latham Who live just across the river in ^ Chester county from Lockhart, accidentally shot herself through the foot vitli a pistol a few days ago. Miss Latham had just returned from an ontcitainment and picked up the pis- * tol belonging to her brother, which ( as wlii'.nyonggHlli'pgS-fiVcxawN'. . 1 was lying on the mantel. In handling it the pistol fell to the floor and was discharged, the ball entering her foot. The ball has j.ct yet been located, but the young woman's condition is not considered serious. HUSI1ANI) AND WIFE STRICKEN. * Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Hall of Selma, Ala., Die Suddenly. Mr. and Mrs. A. NT. TInll of Selma, Ala., husband and wife, apparently in good health Tuesday night, were both dead Wednesday, the husband having died at midnight and the wife four hours later. The husband died suddenly and the wife ran to ' neighbors immediately afterwards requesting them to take her to the residence of her daughter, stating that she, too, felt death stealing upon her. 1 She was carried to her daughter's i home and died there at four o'clock i Wednesday morning. iMr. and Mrs. < Hall were among the most prominent s people in Alabama. Their deaths are t supposed to have been due to natural i causes. Escaped in Woman's CJarb. 'Michael Sobelsky, the Lucas 1 County murderer, who escaped from the penitentiary at Calumbus, Ohio, Monday, clad in the garments of the warden's wife, was captured at Delaware. ? Don't judge the schools by the hot air that is now appearing in the newspapers about them. Wait and see how many scholarships the pupils from them win in competition, and judge them. That is the real test of merit. ^ ^ | ' . . fc. . I .. i mm i mt 4b. I DEATH IN THE MINES } HIIITY THOUSAND KILLED IN THK LAST TKN YEARS. - M ? Ireat Meeting to lie Held in October to Devise Some I'lan to Make the Mines More Safe. Thirty thousand miners killed In. he United States in the last tea ears! v Seventy-five thousand miners inured, many of them maimed for [fe, in the same period. Eleven thousand widows made by he deaths of the miners! Thirty thousand children left fath rless! This terrible record represent not nly the accidents in the coal mines >ut also the metal mines. It is the story of the tragedy of he mines, but not the whole story. f the mines of the United States in hose ten years had had the same tandards of safety as in the EuroLean countries; if the United States iad killed two in every 1,000 emiloyed, instead of three, four or five. Fifteep thousand of the thirty housand American miners killed night be living today. Forty thousand out of the seventyivo thousand injured might have es:aped injury. Five thousand five hundred wicf)ws might not have been widows. Fifteen thousand orphan children night still have fathers. This is the whole grim tragedy of the mines epitomized. It is one of Ihe most serious problems of tho country and the one that brought the Federal Bureau of Mines into being, li is the great problem that the Bureau of Mines, under the leadership of Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, its lirector, is attempting to solve. This problem is responsible for the threat national Mine Safety Demonstration which is to be held in Pittsburg, Pa., October 3 0 and 31, under the auspices of the Bureau of Mines, the American Ited Cross, the United Mine Workers of America, and the Pittsburg Ooal Operators Association. Prom 3 0,000 to 50,000 minors, superintendents and operators are expected to be present. I WOMAN GOT BIO SCARE. Wax Bullet Failed to Melt and li Knocked Her Down. At Trinidad, Col., Frederick Roske, the "human target," who has been thrilling vaudeville audiences there by apparently catching in her teeth bullets fired at her from across the -a- ? n ifvK knrri fin/1 hni* 31(1^1', 1 lIVBllilJ' infill iiuiiiiieu uvi audience by dropping to the floor with what appeared to be an ugly wound in the head. Examination showed, however, that dio was not seriously wounded, that instead of lead the bullet was wax, Lhe accident revealing the sceret of Jie "act." The wax bullets were shown to the audience and placed n the rifle, the heat of the explosion melting the wax and the "human target" displaying in her teeth a bullet she had concealed in her mouth. On? ruesday night one of the wax bullets: failed to melt and gave the performer fhe fright of her life. ? FATAL QUAIIKKL OVKH CJIRr* llcjeotod Escort Kills Two Men ami Is Himself Slain. Because Miss Elsie Ellis refused to iccompany Obie Butler home from a lance at Rafter, Tonn., Tuesday eve* ling, three men are dead. When she efused to go with Butler, Miss Ellis equested Olney Phillips, a boy of 17, to accompany her. When Butler saw them leave the dance ho followed and shot Phillips dead. John Heading, aged 25, then rushed nn to Butler and asked why he '" r ? ^ iad shot Phillips. In reply Butler ihot Heading, killing him instantly. Phe third death came when an tinmown person shot Butler from belind, the ball piercing his brain, lutler was 30 years old. Young Miillips was especially prominent in lis section. l'i,\\s KXTMNSIVK TBI P. darnel, Noted Aviator, Will Tour tho World in Acroplune. A cablegram from Paris says M. Vlamel, tho aviator formerly assoeiited with M. Rleriot, intends touring the world in an aeroplane with a companion, Rene Million. The routo so far planned runs southward through France, Spain, Algeria, Tunis and Egypt; thence by steamer to India; across India through tho air; by steamer to Australia by steamer to South America, a flight over that country and thence by steamer to Afrac and then northward by air line? ? ? Served Them Right. In the federal court Merldan, Mist*. Dr. R. W. Shaw, of Sumter county,. Ala., was fined $500, and Daisy Harper, of Meridan, $250, for vlolatingthe whit? slave law. The case grew out of the alleged abduction of Laura Jones, a 15-year-old girt, to Alabama, where it is said she was detained several days by Ds. Shaw tod Immoral purposes. t ham s -a - u